Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology By analyzing the movements of ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

Most of humanity’s knowledge about Uranus came from a 1986 Voyager 2 flyby on “a particularly windy day.” A new study says ...

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

Despite being more massive than Uranus, Neptune has a smaller total diameter and thinner atmosphere compared to its icy ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...